States must end cost-shifting under Gonski reboot

There's been a mostly cautious reaction from the states to the Federal Government's Gonski reboot.

New South Wales—one of the few remaining Liberal states—has already threatened court action over the move; as one of the most enthusiastic adopters of the original Gonski plan it stands to lose from this deal.

The Labor government in South Australia has welcomed the renewed commitment to needs-based funding for schools, but says Malcolm Turnbull's new Gonski plan falls well short of the original funding promise.